Poems

A Passing Bell Mournfully to and fro, to and fro the trees are waving; What did you say, my dear? The rain-bruised leaves are suddenly shaken, […]

A Sane Revolution If you make a revolution, make it for fun, don’t make it in ghastly seriousness, don’t do it in deadly earnest, do it […]

A Spiritual Woman Close your eyes, my love, let me make you blind; They have taught you to see Only a mean arithmetic on the face […]

A Winter’s Tale Yesterday the fields were only grey with scattered snow, And now the longest grass-leaves hardly emerge; Yet her deep footsteps mark the snow, […]

A Youth Mowing There are four men mowing down by the Isar; I can hear the swish of the scythe-strokes, four Sharp breaths taken: yea, and […]

After Many Days I wonder if with you, as it is with me, If under your slipping words, that easily flow About you as a garment, […]

Anxiety The hoar-frost crumbles in the sun, The crisping steam of a train Melts in the air, while two black birds Sweep past the window again. […]

At the Window The pine-trees bend to listen to the autumn wind as it mutters Something which sets the black poplars ashake with hysterical laughter; While […]

Baby Tortoise You know what it is to be born alone, Baby tortoise! The first day to heave your feet little by little from the shell, […]

Ballad of Another Ophelia Oh the green glimmer of apples in the orchard, Lamps in a wash of rain! Oh the wet walk of my brown […]